Thanks chiefjim am new to linux having just transferred from xp and am trying to find my way around the system. I downloaded gnucash from linux site on google. I have tried kmymoney and have the same problem I can get it into my download folder but cannot get it to install as program.

Eldrick wrote:Thanks chiefjim am new to linux having just transferred from xp and am trying to find my way around the system. I downloaded gnucash from linux site on google. I have tried kmymoney and have the same problem I can get it into my download folder but cannot get it to install as program.

Seems like the primary problem here is where you are getting the appication. In Mate, which I use, Synaptic shows as Package Manager. Select the application(s) you want, click apply, and sit back. If you find you don't like it you can return to Package Manager, select that application again, mark it for removal and click apply. Done

Not sure what's going wrong, but gnucash should definitely be there. It's possible you currently have Synaptic set to only show programs that are already installed instead of showing all available packages. Try the following:

Eldrick wrote:hi gold_finger definately nothing in synaptic re gnucash when I entered your data in terminal got a list of about 30 commands back what do I do now?
tks

I don't run Cinnamon, so loaded 16 Cinnamon into VirtualBox and gnucash showed up just fine in Synaptic. No idea what the problem is on yours.

Open the terminal and enter command again to install gnucash. Copy the terminal output so I can see exactly what you mean by "got a list of about 30 commands". Paste the entire output back here in the forum. Use the "Code" button on forum interface. You'll see "[ code ] ... [ /code ]". Paste the output between those two code blocks.

Please add [SOLVED] to your thread if a solution is found. Go to your first post in the thread, hit "Edit" button and add [SOLVED] to the title of the post.

john@john-Latitude-D620 ~ $ sudo apt-get install gnucash
[sudo] password for john:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnucash : Depends: libaqbanking34 (>= 4.99.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libdbi1 (>= 0.8.4) but it is not installable
Depends: libgoffice-0.8-8 (>= 0.8.8) but it is not installable
Depends: libgwengui-gtk2-0 (>= 3.99.16) but it is not installable
Depends: libgwenhywfar60 (>= 3.99.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libktoblzcheck1c2a (>= 1.19) but it is not installable
Depends: libofx4 but it is not installable
Depends: guile-2.0 but it is not installable
Depends: libfinance-quote-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libwww-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libhtml-tree-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libhtml-tableextract-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libcrypt-ssleay-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libdate-manip-perl but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

This looks like residue from a previous failed attempt. We need to clean it up. Let's start with the easy way:

start synaptic, either by:

menu > type "synaptic" (without the quote marks) in the search dialog and the click on "synaptic" in the results, or by opening a terminal and typing:

sudo synaptic

at the prompt and entering your user password when requested.

from the Synaptic menu, click on "all" in the leftmost pane, then go to the top menu and click edit then click fix broken packages. Check the window for any error messages. It should tell you, in a tiny legend at the bottom of the window, that it successfully fixed dependency problems.

Then, one more time, try to install gnucash (sudo apt-get install gnucash)